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Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

Without experience,how could we be truly educated?

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

No matter what your dream is, just stay the course, ride the waves, and know that, if the dream is in your heart that it, in my opinion, is meant to materialize. But it can only materialize if you stay the course.

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I always have thought that part of being involved with life is the same thing as just wanting to kick it with your friends, and being involved with life on a deeper level is wanting to change the situation that you're in.

I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.